Sunday, 9 January 2011

The Black Butterfly BIRTHDAY VIDEO

Everything is Possible is happy to present the official Black Butterfly VIDEO. A 12 minutes videos to know more about this one year project which gave to around 150 young people the opportunity to learn more about photography and to think about intercultural and cross-ethnic dialogue

This video is accessible for English and Spanish speakers.

Look the Video in High Quality, in selected ''Full Screen''

ENJOY!!


Monday, 20 December 2010

The Black Butterfly PHOTOBOOK now online!

This video presents the Black Butterfly Photobook, which presents the results of the project Black Butterfly and therefor the picture took by the young participants from Europe and Latin America around the intercultural exchange.
Please note that this video is available in High Quality in clicking on 'Full Screen'.

Enjoy!

Monday, 11 October 2010

Strong Linx - UK - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the Strong Linx photo workshop.
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010

ACI-CR - Costa Rica - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the ACI-CR photo workshop.
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Thursday, 9 September 2010

COCAT - Spain - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the COCAT photo workshop.
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QPI - Portugal - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the QPI photo workshop.
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JUCONI - Ecuador - Workshop Description

Together with JUCONI and in partnership with Charlotte Miller Art Project and Everything is Possible, U.K Photographer Laura Montag and Ecuadorian Psychologist Erika Baidal ran a 3-month photography project in the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil. This project has been funded through the 'Youth in Action' programme of the European Union. The project enabled 10 young street involved and high- risk youth to access opportunities to develop, explore and express feelings about their current situation through photography. The young people involved live in conditions of extreme poverty and social exclusion and lack recreational or creative-orientated spaces.

With limited resources but a determined group of enthusiastic teenagers we ran a series of workshops that were held twice a week in various locations from medical centres or classrooms in local schools.
The young people were given basic digital cameras and through a series of technical and creative workshops learnt skills of e.g. using flash, shutter-speed, aperture control and also the investigation of light, composition and decisive moment.

Setting the theme as the ‘interaction of cultures’, the young people photographed within their communities to document their own lives, ambitions, fears and hopes, focussing on aspects of their own culture to tell their story.





In the first sessions many of the young people experienced difficulties in starting the project and trying to think of intercultural ideas through images. To help the young people get started we created sketches and montages of found images to illustrate ideas of what ‘intercultural’ means to us. Different types of dance, food, race, music and fashion were explored. Two participants, who’s families immigrated from Africa to Ecuador, wanted to show how dance and particular styles of African dance are an important aspect of their life. They both belong to a community dance group.


In order to help the young people to develop further ideas for personal projects we began by creating role-plays, looking at researched images, and creating interviews to help to think how we might illustrate intercultural situations within our own lives.
Some of the young people decided to focus and explore on ideas such as inter-racial couples and the problems that can be faced within their own communities. Other ideas to photograph were how different religions exist in Ecuador, or even the huge array of cuisine and traditions that can differ from region to region.


Over a period of 6 weeks, the young people photographed in their communities and twice a week me met up to share ideas and images with the rest of the group. We used a projector so as to help discuss the images within the group. The young people found it useful to share their images to the group and talk about further ideas for their personal projects.



Examples of young peoples works:


Blanquita


Joselyn


Blanquita


Stephania


The project worked in partnership with JUCONI (Junto Con los NiƱos or Together with the Children) and Everything is Possible.
JUCONI is an Ecuadorian not-for-profit organisation that provides specialised educational and therapeutic services to street-working children and their families.
JUCONI´s primary objectives are:

* To provide street-involved children and young people with the tools and skills to build solutions to their own needs in an environment that guarantees their healthy development, and to exercise their rights in accordance with the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
* To create families and communities which respect children’s rights and encourage their participation.
* To share skills and experiences with other NGOs and service providers in order to build civil society capacity to work effectively with street-involved and other socially excluded children.

Programmes include:

* Workshops for children on issues such as drugs and sex education
* Workshops for parents on issues such as health, nutrition, effective discipline and family planning
* Training for teachers in local schools in teaching and behaviour management strategies for street-involved children, who often suffer emotional, learning and concentration difficulties
* Regular youth interest groups and recreational activities, to develop the ability to integrate, participate and co-operate
* Youth leadership training, to provide the skills and self-esteem to take up alternatives to crime and gang involvement
* Building links with local services, including schools, churches, health service providers and existing community groups, in order to develop an effective network of community support service

The Charlotte Miller Art Project works with street-working children in the poverty-stricken port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. It provides a place for street involved and high risk children and youth where they can identify their hopes for the future and methods of realising those hopes, through art activities appropriate to their developmental stages.
The project has been running since 2002 and to date over 300 children have taken part in a variety of arts based activities including painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video, story telling and performance arts.
This project has been funded through the 'Youth in Action' programme of the European Union

Thursday, 2 September 2010

AMAZONICA - French Guyana - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the AMAZONICA photo workshop.
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Thursday, 19 August 2010

AFEMJO - CLM - Spain - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the AFEMJO-CLM photo workshop.
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Chances For All - UK - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the Chances For All photo workshop.
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Monday, 16 August 2010

GOL DE LETRA - Brazil - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the Gol De Letra photo workshop.
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Strong Linx - UK - Black Butterfly Exhibition

The 13th August, Strong Linx presented its Black Butterfly Exhibition.
All the participants were there with Narsha and Daniel (from Strong Linx) to host many peoples coming to enjoy the pictures, some theatre performances and food.
It has been very great to see this exhibition!! Thanks to all the participants and Strong Linx team!













If you have pictures from your exhibition and you want to share its on this blog don't hesitate to send them to Raphael.

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

SKIP - Peru - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the SKIP photo workshop.
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AUDELE - Uruguay - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the AUDELE photo workshop.
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Thursday, 15 July 2010

JUCONI - Ecuador - Pictures of the workshop

This video presents pictures taken during the JUCONI photo workshop.
Enjoy!


Thursday, 1 July 2010

Black Butterfly Project in ACULCO Radio

The Thursday 4th February 2010, all the partners involve in the Black Butterfly Project went to ACULCO Radio, where some were interviewed.

This video present some excerpts from each interview, and a presentation of some organizations involve in the Black Butterfly Project

ENJOY!!




Partners interviewed:
00:05 Godfrey (Everything is Possible - UK)
00:46 Karen (AUDELE - Uruguay)
02:00 Gladys (JUCONI - Ecuador)
02:52 Beatriz (Gol De Letra - Brazil)
03:46 Katherine (ACI-CR - Costa Rica)
04:26 Laura (AFMEJO-CLM - Spain)
05:42 N'Zabela (Djambo Free Touch & Ecole des Parents et des Educateurs Guyane Est - French Guyana)
07:22 Raphael (an EVS Volunteer from Everything is Possible - UK)
08:04 Lynn (Charlotte Millart Project - UK)
08:52 Liz (SKIP - Peru)


Download the audio folder:

- the version without musics: click here
If this link doesn't work anymore, please contact raphael@everythingispossible.eu


- the version with the musics: click here
If this link doesn't work anymore, please contact raphael@everythingispossible.eu